stuck in the middle...

many things

Quiet evening at home. Hurrah! Haven't had one of those in quite a while.

TV I am watchingRecently, I have been re-watching episodes of:- Sarah Connor Chronicles- the Lizzie Bennet Diaries- Once Upon A Time- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic- Leverage- Yes Minister

All of them are very awesome, but in very different ways.

Lent......will start in about a week. In previous years, I have done many different things, including giving up chocolate, television, and unnecessary spending. The unnecessary spending worked well; the chocolate less so. It's not that I can't give up chocolate - but instead of making me focus on God, or on how little I need possessions, or on more spiritual things, it just makes me focus on how much I love chocolate. Which kind of defeats the purpose of the whole thing.

This year, I'm being a bit restrictive: I'm sticking to only fair trade tea and chocolate. Inconvenient? Focusing on other people in financial difficulty? A good discipline? Yep, yep, and yep. We'll see how it goes.

(One year, I'm so going to give up electric lighting. But that will not be this year.)

My washingI just did it. For the first time in a month.

I can tell this, because my clothes-horse is now holding 25 pairs of undies. I didn't even realise I had 25 pairs of undies...

iPad AppsThere are so many.

Just about anything you could ever think of trying to plan - seriously, anything - will have an app already waiting, with in-built checklists ready to go. Very helpful. (Except that the app will be totally convinced that no-one could ever colonise Mars without inventing faster-than-light travel first, and will keep putting little "remember to install your FTL drives!" reminders in your to-do list, even though you have no intention of doing anything of the sort. Kind of irritating - and makes me feel like I'm terribly untrendy because I'm not fixated on conquering hyperspace and just want to get to the fun part of the Mars colonisation project*.)

* This, for the record, is the bit where we discover the ruins of the ancient Martian civilisation underground, and decipher the codes for creating wormholes using Martian technology...

Except that the app will be totally convinced that no-one could ever colonise Mars without inventing faster-than-light travel first, and will keep putting little "remember to install your FTL drives!"

...man, I'm doing a presentation on mobile apps tomorrow, and that's a new one on me. What's it called, anyway? Does it do anything besides mess with your to-do list? Seems like an annoying little bugger, otherwise.

The app actually has nothing to do with Mars - I'm trying to keep its actual identity obscure...

It does tend to think that my todo lists for different projects should have MUCH more stuff in them than they actually need. I keep on having to delete list items. (The overall app is helpful, though.)